Thank you.
I just want to follow up on that question, because I think the question had a lot to do with saying that we need a Competition Act that—and I think this is what Mr. Singh is trying to accomplish in his own private member's bill—recognizes that consumer protection isn't completely satisfied by having good competition law, but that there are times when, given the location of a business, there's just not going to be competition. You're not going to be able to get the fixed costs of running a gas station or a grocery store in northern communities down to the point where you have two businesses competing, because between them they can't make enough money in that community in order to run two profitable businesses. That's why Mr. Singh is trying to include in our Competition Act the idea that where you don't have competition, you can't abuse that market position in order to price-gouge.
With that context, I would just put the question again: Why is it that the government doesn't seem to want to move ahead with providing some important consumer protection in areas where competition is not possible? You can make the circumstances as favourable as you like; there are some real-world constraints on whether you have two competing businesses in the same community.